Resumen
The article focuses on engaging the fundamental structure of the Internet with an eye towards making it a real democracy network. To write about the use of information and communication technology and democracy requires not a hyper-speed view that everything will change in the next two years, but rather it is principles that are establish and actions that are taken will set the course for the next 200 years of democracy in the information age. That election year a group of volunteers created Minnesota E-Democracy, the world's first election-oriented Web site. Despite the social, political, and economic differences, forms of representation and public decision-making are pulling the Internet and other information and communication technologies into the heart of what they do. However, from parliaments and local councils to civil society and media groups, the sectors of democracy are primarily focused on the end applications and not the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet.